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BiblioBanners™
- Library Banners and Posters
"Biblio"
derives from the French, and before that Latin and Greek, "biblion" meaning
"book." For centuries, a French "bibliotheque" has been a place to house many books arranged in order.
BiblioBanners™ are digital graphic designs created
specifically to decorate libraries and provide artistic signage, to humanize the
library environment and validate user needs.
Banners, in general, are large in format and created
with a variety of materials depending on how they are displayed.
BiblioBanners™ are designed for effective large format
presentation, but they can be reduced and modified for small formats as well.
The digital graphics can be printed on fabric, vinyl, or cardstock. Colors,
text, graphics, and applications can be adapted to any individual library.
Your Library - Highlight of the Community
Your library is on the tour. Whether it’s a real estate
agent or a visitor's guide on campus, you are one of the stops on the tour for
potential residents or students.
Your library not only houses a collection for
information and pleasure that is geared to the community, it also provides a
meeting place both informally for small groups and formally for larger
functions. It provides instruction in the way in which it is organized and
signed, the manner in which staff assist patrons, and in the quality of story
hours and other programming. It serves as a display area for the
community -- from posters advertising local events to the latest student
projects to a recent product from the quilters’ club.
What impression does your library make on the visitor?
Does it look welcoming and vibrant? Have you found a way to minimize clutter?
How do you tactfully handle donations that do not fit with your overall design
scheme? Is your signage visible from a distance, meaningful to the user,
complementary to the interior design, and part of a total signage plan that
looks professional?
Information
Environment
Libraries of the 21st century have already
managed exciting challenges. No longer a place to house only books, they have
accommodated the audio and visual technologies. Since the 1970s, they have grown
with the information explosion to embrace the unlimited possibilities of the
computer and the on-line world.
With that information explosion has come, not only the
vast amount of information, but also great speed of transmission and visual
appeal. Today’s library user comes from a world of lively graphics and ready
access to information.
Is that the kind of world he enters at your library
door? Is the place visually appealing? Welcoming? Does she soon know where to
start? Can she find his own way?
The library environment, from the first step in the
door, is as much an informational tool as are the resources housed there.
Patrons make way-finding decisions as they move through the facility. Just as
they look for directional cues in an airport, in a hospital, in a discount
store, they need meaningful visual cues in the library. They need to move from
general to specific, a basic rule for any effective information gathering.
Does your library signage do that for them? Can they
read your signs from a distance? Do your visual cues give them answers at every
point where they need to make a decision? Or is the library staff constantly
answering basic, directional questions? Or does the patron leave, frustrated and
disappointed?
How to Contact BiblioBanners.com™
email:
minx@bibliobanners.com
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